Racial Justice

Some Black students are being told they stink while others are being called monkeys by their White peers. The n-word has been written on the walls of school restrooms as other students are the targets of racist rants on social media.

Lexipol, a little-known private company based in Orange County that over the past two decades has quietly become one of the most influential forces in U.S. policing, writing policy statements for many police departments.

Sesame Workshop will air half-hour special later this month to define racism for younger viewers and show how it’s hurtful

These government maps documented racist lending practices that gave rise to today’s segregated neighborhoods.

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This map shows the racial and ethnic makeup of the entire United States, according to the 2020 census.

News outlets have apologized for past racism. That should only be the start.

A new report from the National Governors Association gives states recommendations on how they can close their digital divides as the pandemic drags on.

On May 14, 2010, Sandra K. Soto served as the invited faculty speaker at the Convocation ceremony for the University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral

ATLANTA (AP) — A white gunman was charged Wednesday with killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors in an attack that sent terror through the Asian American community , which has increasingly been targeted during the coronavirus pandemic.

How should Asian Americans respond to rising anti-Asian racist actions? History may offer some lessons during the pandemic.

‘Rather than solidarity, Desi feels like an imposition.’

The filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña discusses the Atlanta shootings, the murder of Vincent Chin, and the complexities of Asian identity in the United States.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hate crimes in the U.S. rose to the highest level in more than a decade as federal officials also recorded the highest number of hate-motivated killings since the FBI began collecting that data in the early 1990s, according to an FBI report released Monday...

Asian Americans are calling on political leaders and law enforcement to address growing concerns over coronavirus-related racial attacks.

In the age of COVID-19, an epidemic of anti-Asian bias and violence is spreading across America. The hard truth is that this isn’t new—in fact, for any student of history, it’s very familiar.

Aaron Coleman's early art took the form of graffiti art on trains. He is now a printmaker whose work has been displayed in collections around the world.

During the pandemic, anti-Asian violence is on the rise around the world. The Pulitzer-winning author reflects on his own experiences as a Vietnamese American – and the dark history that continues to fuel the current hate

Gugulethu Moyo is publicly accusing the board of Tuscon's Jewish History Museum of racism and sexism — and the board is threatening to sue her.

The FBI has long discredited civil rights leaders. It should put its authorities to better use by holding officers accountable, writes former agent Mike German

The family of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger who was chased by three white men in pickup trucks and gunned down in south Georgia in 2020, says that the men's federal hate crimes trial will do what the state court did not - reckon with race.

This post describes ongoing research by Kenny Peng, Arunesh Mathur, and Arvind Narayanan. We are grateful to Marshini Chetty for useful feedback. Computer

Systemic racism looks at the way racism operates over all of society, not just in one-on-one interactions.

Constitutional scholars Randy Barnett and Carol Anderson discuss how notions of gun ownership have changed -- and not changed -- since the founding of the country.

The documents are slightly different drafts of the same annual threat assessment, which is not yet published.

The term "institutional racism" describes societal patterns and structures that oppress certain groups on the basis of race or ethnicity.

Fear gripped the Asian American and Pacific Islander community after the Georgia shooting.

SEATTLE — The Seattle City Council on Tuesday added caste to the city's anti-discrimination laws, becoming the first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination and the first in the world to pass such a law outside South Asia.

Our founding ideals promise liberty and equality for all. Our reality is an enduring racial hierarchy that has persisted for centuries.